The word ‘retirement’ has a terrible air of finality about it.finalityfi‧nal‧i‧ty /faɪˈnæləti/ AWL noun [uncountable] 
The word ‘retirement’ has a terrible air of finality about it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She announced her impending departure with finality and sadness in her voice.
- Aquinas himself saw no finality in the solutions offered by either Aristotle or Ptolemy to the problems of planetary motion.
- It has to be unfair to put some one through the stress of a trial without finality.
- Several efforts to reach finality have failed and the situation remains unresolved.
- There's a dreadful finality about cutting down a tree.
- When an enactment is passed there is finality unless and until it is amended or repealed by Parliament.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The word ‘retirement’ has a terrible air of finality about it.
The word ‘retirement’ has a terrible air of finality about it.WORD FAMILYnounfinalsemi-finalfinalistsemi-finalistfinalefinalityfinalizationadjectivefinalverbfinalizeadverbfinally
the quality something has when it is finished or complete and cannot be changeda sense/air of finality The word ‘retirement’ has a terrible air of finality about it.